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Ghost Signs Of Stoke Newington
This is the epicentre of ghost sign activity in Stoke Newington Church St. On the left is a triple-layer painted wall of the Westminster Gazette, Criterion Matches, Gillette Razors – all merged into...
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At Oxgate Farm
The quaint timbered dwelling with gables and a roughcast exterior manifests the idyll of domesticity for many and, as testimony to its potency, suburban streets up and down the country are lined with...
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Jemmy Catnach’s Cries Of London
Jemmy (James) Catnach of Monmouth Court was celebrated for publishing ballads, penny awfuls, and children’s farthing and halfpenny chapbooks. As publisher, compositor and poet, he established the Seven...
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East End Suffragette Map
Coinciding with the East London Suffragette Festival, Researcher Vicky Stewart & Designer Adam Tuck have collaborated to bring you this map of some key events in the struggle for Women’s Suffrage...
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An East End Alphabet
Amandine Alessandra & Rute Nieto Ferreira see letters everywhere, and now they have channelled their witty insights into a nifty paperback published by Tower Block Books. Beautifully produced as a...
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Viscountess Boudica & The Tricity Contessa
“its been a moving exsperance for me” As you can see, Viscountess Boudica of Bethnal Green is in heaven. She has found the Tricity Contessa 643 electric cooker that she has been searching for since...
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At Lucy Sparrow’s Felt Corner Shop
Lucy Sparrow In 1993, there was Rachel Whiteread’s ‘House’ sculpture in Grove Rd, then Tracey Emin & Sarah Lucas’ ‘Shop’ in Bethnal Green Rd and now Lucy Sparrow’s ‘Corner Shop’ in Wellington Row....
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More Of Charles Hindley’s Cries Of London
In his History of the Cries of London, Ancient & Modern of 1884, Charles Hindley reused many woodblocks from earlier publications and this series below dates from perhaps a century earlier. Of all...
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Truman’s Spitalfields Pub Crawl
Fancy a couple of pints on Friday night? You are invited to come along on Truman’s pub crawl in Spitalfields this Friday in the company of Derek Prentice former Master Brewer in Brick Lane and Jack...
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In Old Bermondsey
The horse’s head upon the fascia reveals that RW Autos was once a farrier Twenty-five years ago I had reason to visit Bermondsey St frequently but I have hardly been there since, so I thought it was...
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King Of The Bottletops In Spitalfields
Robson Cezar Have you seen the bottletop man at the corner of Hanbury St? You might not notice him among the regulars that gather on the pavement outside The Golden Heart but, when the crowds thin...
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Yet More Of Hindley’s Cries Of London
In his History of the Cries of London, Ancient & Modern of 1884, Charles Hindley reused many woodblocks from earlier publications and these below date from much earlier in the century. Each one no...
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Fifth Annual Report
Five years ago, I began to write daily in these pages without any expectation of where it might lead or what the outcome might be, and now the business of seeking a story and getting photographs and...
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At The Whitechapel Mission
At dawn on Easter Tuesday, while most of the world was still sleeping, Contributing Photographer Colin O’Brien & I paid a visit to the Whitechapel Mission which has been caring for the homeless...
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Colin O’Brien’s Playground Portraits
In the midst of spending last week preparing the book of Horace Warner’s Spitalfields Nippers for publication in the autumn, I asked Contributing Photographer Colin O’Brien if he would like to visit...
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The Cambridge & Bethnal Green Boys’ Club Final Reunion Dinner
When I attended the 86th Anniversary Dinner of the Cambridge & Bethnal Green Boys’ Club in 2010 as guest of Ron Goldstein, I promised to return each year until the last. The numbers of those who...
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Seventeenth Century Finds From Shoreditch
Moneyboxes, a jug and a candleholder from Holywell The name of Holywell Lane is the only clue today of the former existence of Holywell Priory that stood between Shoreditch High St and Curtain Rd from...
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Hop Picking Portraits
Every September, at hop picking time, Tower Hamlets Community Housing stages a Hop Picking Festival down in Cable St, affording the hop pickers of yesteryear a chance to gather and share their tales of...
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More Blogs Spawned
One of the joys of teaching courses encouraging others to write blogs is that – without exception – the participants always come up with wonderful ideas and here are just a couple that have been...
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King Of The Bottletops At The City Farm
Robson & Kellogg the Cockerell In recent weeks, Robson Cezar, King of the Bottletops has been enjoying a spell as artist-in-residence at Spitalfields City Farm, so while I was there picking hops...
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